On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 8:55 AM, Michael Orlitzky <mich...@orlitzky.com>wrote:
> On 04/20/2011 11:35 AM, Dan Cowsill wrote: > > Hi list, > > > > I've been having a strange issue every so often. I'll do a world update > > (emerge -uDNav, etc) and that will proceed nicely, installing new > > packages and suchlike. I'll then do a little bit of the old emerge -pcv > > to check for dangling packages and I will get the following: > > > > !!! You have no world file. > > !!! Proceeding is likely to break your installation. > > > > Portage will then politely inform me that it needs to remove 190 > > packages and I thank FSM I added -p. > > > > So! Googling that little tidbit produced nothing meaningful. What's > > the story? Gremlins? > > > > Basically. Do you have a world file (/var/lib/portage/world)? If not, > why not? Is /var or one of its subdirectories mounted separately? Hard > drive going bad? Do you see gremlins anywhere? > > Permissions on /var/lib/portage should be drwxrws--- root:portage > > /var/lib/portage/world should be -rw-r--r-- root:portage > > File's there, permissions are correctly set, the filesystem isn't mounted separately and according to smartctl, the hard drive is doing quite well. I'm at a loss!
